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Study shows potential to prevent hospitalizations in brain tumor patients

April 13th, 2011 - 8:30 am

In a retrospective five-year study, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that common causes of hospitalization for patients with malignant brain tumors, such as seizures, are potentially preventable.  Researchers hope to use the findings to promote changes in certain practices … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Leading NIH-Funded Study on Uterine Fibroid Treatment

January 28th, 2011 - 1:33 pm

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart of Mayo Clinic describes the rationale and process for a new NIH-funded study comparing two FDA-approved methods for treating uterine fibroids. Duke University also is participating in the study, and women do not need to live near … Continue reading →

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Study: Stopping Clinical Trials Early Exaggerates Treatment Effects

March 19th, 2010 - 12:28 pm

An international study of nearly 100 clinical trials that were stopped early due to positive treatment effects has found that many of those effects were exaggerated. The authors of the study — published in the current issue of the Journal … Continue reading →

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First Month Critical for Heart Attack Survivors

October 30th, 2008 - 2:20 pm

People who survive a heart attack face the greatest risk of dying from sudden cardiac death (SCD) during the first month after leaving the hospital, according to a long-term community study by Mayo Clinic researchers of nearly 3,000 heart attack … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Elective Surgery after Stent Placement Should be Delayed

September 24th, 2008 - 11:29 pm

Mayo Clinic researchers have studied the largest group of patients to date to understand the risk of non-cardiac elective surgery for those who have cardiac stents. The two papers, along with an editorial, are in the current issue of Anesthesiology. … Continue reading →

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New Mayo Clinic Computer Analysis Gives Alzheimer’s Disease Severity “Score”

July 15th, 2008 - 4:45 pm

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an algorithm that extracts information on brain deterioration from three-dimensional MRI scans and assigns a severity score by comparing the scan to a large library of scans from patients with Alzheimer’s disease and patients who … Continue reading →

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Unmarried Women from Rural Areas are at Higher Risk for Depression

June 11th, 2008 - 4:54 pm

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have found that unmarried women living in rural areas have lower self-rated health status than their married counterparts.  This lower health status often includes greater instances of self-assessed feelings of depression.  James Rohrer, Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic’s department … Continue reading →

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